Well, obviously we are going in the other direction by becoming fully reporting. It's not the nature of public ownership that bothers me. Sometimes the lack of understanding on the part of investors bothers me because I know they are panic selling over nothing.
I don't read this board every day, but when I do I am always perplexed why someone who owns shares would make negative statements. Sure, perhaps you may want to convey your feelings to the company (and we do read all the emails we receive), but it seems self-defeating to advertise those feelings to other potential investors.
The ironic thing is that I was recently reading "Too Big to Fail" and I couldn't help but take note of how some of the CEOs of the largest financial companies in the world, like John Mack and former Lehman CEO Dick Fuld, made many of the same complaints I often read here about the shorts and others spinning info to manipulate the share price of their companies.
At the end of the day, a lot comes down to investor confidence. When investors lost confidence in Leh and BSC they went down. I guess the frustration is that we have done much that I think should give investors confidence that management has a good plan and knows what it's doing, but I often don't think investors understand what an accomplishment it is to take something like Berlin from an idea to reality.
Unfortunately we don't make widgets, so we can't update investors every week on the progress of our widget making. When we release news it is usually when some sort of agreement has been signed, so it is not anticipatory, it is done. The people with whom we do deals wouldn't like it if I told the world what we were doing with them before the deal is signed, so those without patience get frustrated and sell, but any given day could bring an announcement of the next project has been signed and when you are on the inside looking out it can be a bit frustrating.
Anyway, enough for tonight. I hope everyone has a happy and healthy holiday!
Mike
